VMware Cloud Director: Install Configure Manage [V10.1]

In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.

This course also covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director® with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®. You will also understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™.

Product Alignment

• vCloud Director 9.x
• vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 3.0
• vSphere 6.x and later
• NSX 6.x and later

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Deploy vCloud Director
• Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
• Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of vCloud Director
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between public clouds and private clouds
• Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios involving vCloud Director
• Configure the integration with VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®
• Use VMware vCloud® Availability for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

Intended Audience

Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 vCloud Director Deployment and Configuration

• Define Software Defined Datacenter
• Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services
• Understand the prerequisite to install vCloud Director
• Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director
• Differentiate different deployment options, benefits, and disadvantages
• Discuss VMware Validated Design

3 vCloud Director Provider and Organization

• Configure and manage provider VDCs
• Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
• Create and manage organizations, including vCloud Director organization VDCs
• Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI
• Discuss HTML5-based Provider Portal and Tenant Portal

4 vCloud Director Organization VDC

• Organization VDC allocation models
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
• Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
• Examine the function of network pools
• Discuss Compute Profiles

5 vApps and Catalogs

• Discuss the use of virtual machines
• Design and manage vApps
• Create and manage catalogs
• Manage vApp templates
• Create and Manage vApp Networks
• Discuss vApp Network Traffic Choices

6 Users and Role-based Access

• Describe role-based access
• Create custom security roles
• Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
• Describe single sign-on
• Enable a SAML identity provider
• Describe two-factor authentication
• Discuss User bundle and role-based access control

7 vCloud Director Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX edge services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateway in combination with vCloud Director
• Discuss edge services like NAT, DHCP, load balancer, and firewall
• Discuss the architecture of VMware NSX-T™
• Discuss vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T
• Discuss Multisite
• Configure Cross VDC Networking.

8 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Analyze vCloud Director logs
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Log Insight
• Managing billing and reports of vCloud Director objects using Tenant vApp

9 vCloud Extensibility

• Discuss Container Service Extension
• Explore vCD CLI
• Discuss Python SDK for vApp Deployment
• Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
• Discuss VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ Plug-in for vCloud Director

10 vCloud Director APIs

• Describe access to vCD objects using REST API calls
• Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director objects
• Discuss different third-party API client tools
• Describe access to vCloud Director using Postman, Curl
• Describe access to vCloud Director using OpenAPI
• Create and update metadata on objects
• Access different vCloud Objects using vCloud API

11 Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

• Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Review prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Discuss implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal
• Review fail-over Virtual Machine options
• Discuss Virtual Machine replication to the Cloud
• Discuss On-prem to Cloud migration

12 vCloud Director Troubleshooting

• Identify log locations for vCloud Director
• Navigate through vCloud Director logs
• Capture vCloud Director log bundles